News Release from: Silicon Concepts
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 30 April 2002
Development kit for zero instruction set computing
A new development kit helps designers harness the power of zero instruction set computing (ZISC) for pattern recognition and data mining.
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A new development kit helps designers to harness the power of zero instruction set computing (ZISC) for pattern recognition and data mining. The Silicon Recognition Wizard evaluation kit from Silicon Concepts allows engineers to quickly configure and evaluate a ZISC engine within a Windows 98, 2000 or NT design environment. ZISC computers are built using the Silicon Recognition SRC078 ZISC processor chip developed in partnership with IBM, each containing 78 parallel processing elements.
The concept is highly scalable, with no theoretical limit on the number of processing elements per system and no degradation in speed.
Using ZISC, tasks such as pattern recognition, data mining and high-speed Internet content filtering are completed far faster than conventional computers that fetch, decode and execute each instruction.
Further potential applications include automotive navigation, predictive maintenance, license plate recognition, biometrics, industrial inspection, target tracking, noise reduction and many more systems where an automatically learned process can replace hundreds of millions of clock cycles to achieve a significant performance advantage.
The Wizard evaluation board includes two ZISC chips, enabling hardware engines with up to 156 parallel processors to be configured.
The kit also supports software modelling of ZISC engines with up to 2000 parallel processing elements, delivering equivalent performance approximately 10 billion instructions per second.
This translates into 200,000 recognitions per second by simply plugging the Wizard card into the system.
A 150,000 gate FPGA, 1Mbit of memory and a parallel port are also included.
Object learning and verification are completed using easy-to-understand point and click operations.
The Wizard kit is supported by three optional software packages.
The first option, I_Wizard, is featured for imaging projects, and includes support for bmp, jpg and avi files, plus Video for Windows driver for live image input through webcams or frame grabbers.
Over 16000 categories of objects are supported per project.
C_Wizard includes software to support vector classification projects such as pattern recognition and data mining.
C_Wizard imports comma delimited data files (csv) for recognition or learning.
T_Wizard includes ZISC evaluation software for target tracking applications, with point and click application for tracking of objects.
T_Wizard loads avi movie files or captures live video from any Video for Windows device.
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